This page lists the current status of the Convention
for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region
(Cartagena de Indias, 1983) as well as the status of the Convention's Protocols:

The majority of the signatories to the Convention signed the document at
its adoption in Cartagena in March of 1983. Ratification by the signatories ocurred in the
following years. The only signatories not yet to ratify the Convention include Honduras,
Nicaragua and the European Economic Commission (now called the European Union). A number
of other nations which did not sign the Convention have acceded to it, as provided by
Article 27 of the Convention. Upon receipt of the ninth
ratification, the Convention entered into force as described in Article 28 of the Convention, on 11 October 1986.

Notes:

* France signed with reserve.
** Ratified on behalf of the Netherlands Antilles Federation on 16 April 1984, and for
Aruba as of 1 January 1986.
*** Ratified on behalf of the Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands on 28
February 1986, reserving the right to extend it at a future date to include other
territories. On 21 November 1987, it was extended to the British Virgin Islands

Note from the Secretariat:
The other Territories of the United Kingdom participating in the Caribbean Environment
Programme are Anguilla and Montserrat.

With the exception of the E.E.C. (E.U.), all states simultaneously
signed the Oil Spills Protocol with the Convention. In almost all cases the Oil Spills
Protocol was ratified or acceded to by a state at the same time as that state ratified or
acceded to the Convention. The Oil Spills Protocol entered into force simultaneously with
the Convention on 11 October 1986.

The SPAW Protocol has yet to enter into force as of the date of this
page (see below). It awaits ratification by two more signatories to reach the nine
signatory ratifications necessary for its entry into force as required by Article 27 of the SPAW Protocol.